Congressional Socialist-Black Caucus demands "Gun Control"

[GeneCC]

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus urged President Obama to take action on gun control legislation Tuesday at their first meeting with the president in more than two years.

Obama “reaffirmed his commitment” to the issue during the White House meeting, one administration official said.

The president told the lawmakers that he will focus on gun violence and acknowledged the problem wasn’t just about tragic events like the one in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six educators were killed by a lone gunman in December.

He gave examples of other places where gun violence was a problem, according to one attendee of the meeting.

Obama started the year with a serious effort to win congressional approval of gun legislation. But his effort appeared to fail in the Senate, where legislation to impose tougher background checks on gun purchases failed to win 60 votes and overcome a filibuster.

Many black lawmakers have noted that a disproportionate number of African-Americans are victims of gun violence. Trayvon Martin, a black teenager killed in Florida last year in an altercation with a neighborhood watch volunteer, did not come up, a source familiar with the meeting said. The trial of the man accused of killing Martin has received enormous attention in the last few weeks.

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who attended the meeting, said Obama is “totally committed” to passing tougher gun laws in his second term. The trick, she said, is getting Congress to agree and “not allowing the National Rifle Association to control the agenda.”

“We’ve got to fight harder and the members of the public have to continue to speak out,” Lee said. “It’s up to us; I think they [White House officials] are doing everything that they can do. It’s the House that has not allowed these bills to come to the floor.”

Lee said Democrats are still seeking a comprehensive solution that includes efforts to ban military-style rifles, limit the number of bullets in magazines and take on inner-city hand-gun violence. She noted that public opinion polls show overwhelming support for those provisions and lamented that the same enthusiasm hasn’t materialized on Capitol Hill.

“It’s the optics that’s holding us up,” she said, “but hopefully we’re going to break through that.”

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What does the average African American want? To live in dignity, which for many means that they too need a gun.

[sprrdhawk44]

The fools don't even understand where gun control has its roots.

[GeneCC]

FWIW - Opinion polls have consistently supported Abortion restrictions to the first trimester.

So much for opinion polls.....

[GeneCC]

The fools don't even understand where gun control has its roots.

They're "bought and paid for".... as long as they get their subsidies and set asides they'll do as they're asked to do.

[Pilot321]

They're "bought and paid for".... as long as they get their subsidies and set asides they'll do as they're asked to do.

^^^^This. They all know, including Obama that more gun control laws will only affect the law abiding, and not the criminals of Chicago, L.A., Philly, Camden, Atlanta, etc that have the vast majority of crimes committed by people already barred from owning guns.

Their agenda is not to reduce crime, nor violence but control the much larger law abiding populace.

[arjohnson]

No matter how hard they fight we will fight twice as hard against it.

[phill]

I will word this in my least offensive way. The need for control is not with the guns but with the breeding of a good portion of our population. Before you attach a racist handle to me the ethnicity has nothing to do with breeding trash so that you can get more government money. We had a white trash family down the road with a herd of uncivilized whelps who sucked the tit and stole everything not nailed down. While we were trying to raise a couple of calves for meat the gov. set him up in the hog business, animals, feed and equipment. He immediately ran down here and tried to sell me everything.

Back on topic the inequality of even having a black caucus is mind blowing. How about a Scots/Irish Caucus so we can at least get parity.

RANT OVER Thanks for listening

[Yellowfin]

They're "bought and paid for".... as long as they get their subsidies and set asides they'll do as they're asked to do.

Some of it is that, but also with the black caucus they're actually peddling hate politics of their own against us. They use it as a metaphorical attack against people who aren't them and make it an us vs. them dynamic to parade around for their constituents and their rich white liberal enablers. It's very disgusting and they never get called out on it in any meaningful way.

[jerkin]

I just want to know what the Congressional white caucus had to say to the President during their meeting.

[yeager484]

I just want to know what the Congressional white caucus had to say to the President during their meeting.

That's racist!